[Moin-user] Behavior change in 1.9.2 question

Eric O'Brien ericob at builtbybugs.com
Sat May 29 23:45:20 EDT 2010


A shot in the dark here, but I *think* there are settings in Apache  
that determine if a trailing slash is automatically added to urls.

Maybe.

Possibly the upgrade to the OS somehow changed something in Apache??

eo

On May 29, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a minimal moin user. I keep a wiki to help me remember computer
> configuration info...
>
> This weekend I upgraded Fedora 12 to Fedora 13, this moved moin from
> 1.8.7 to 1.9.2.
>
> After a bit of blundering around I got the wiki going again.
>
> I use Apache to access the wiki ( located at /var/mywiki)
>
> I have the following directives in httpd.conf
>
> Alias /moin_static192 /usr/share/moin/htdocs
>
> ScriptAlias /mywiki /var/mywiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi
>
> I used the new moin.cgi and wikiconfig.py and hopefully
> have set the options properly in wikiconfig.py
>
> the Problem:
>  Accessing the wiki with the URL http://localhost/mywiki/ appears to
>  work just fine, I can see all of the original pages and the links all
>  seem to be working. "MyStartingPage" is displayed
>
>  Accessing the wiki with the URL http://localhost/mywiki
>  (note no final '/') fails with the message that the page
>  'mywiki' does not exist and do I want to create the page.
>
> Taking a peek at the generated javascript ( which I really don't
> understand) it appears in the first case ( a trailing slash) that
> a search for MyStartingPage is done.
>
> In the second case it looks like the javascript is looking for the
> page 'mywiki' which indeed does not exist.
>
> In the 1.8.x ( and earlier ) I could use both of the above
> URLS and get 'MyStartingPage' displayed.
>
> So, is there any way to get this old behavior back?
>
> Have I malconfigured something?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry
>
>
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